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“Beauty is our weapon against nature; by it we make objects, giving them limit, symmetry, proportion. Beauty halts and freezes the melting flux of nature.”

Giving Nature Beauty Objects Limits Weapons Proportion Melting Freeze Halt Symmetry Flux

Author:Camille Paglia

“We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none.”

Desire Literature Nature Limits Trifles

Author:Christian Nestell Bovee

“After decades of faithful study, ecologists have begun to fathom hidden likenesses among many interwoven systems. ...a canon of nature's laws, strategies, and principles... Nature runs on sunlight. Nature uses only the energy it needs. Nature fits form to function. Nature recycles everything. Nature rewards cooperation. Nature banks on diversity. Nature demands local expertise. Nature curbs excesses from within. Nature taps the power of limits.”

“Realization is not knowledge about the universe, but the living experience of the nature of the universe. Until we have such living experience, we remain dependent on examples, and subject to their limits.”

Universe Nature Knowledge Subjects Example Limits Experience Remains Realization Buddhist Dependent Life Experience Deep Thought

Book:The Crystal and the Way of Light: Sutra, Tantra, and Dzogchen

Source: The Crystal and the Way of Light: Sutra, Tantra, and Dzogchen